SmarTrunk Systems, Inc., was founded in 1979 as Selectone Corporation, a privately held California corporation. Since its inception, the company was a leading manufacturer of tone signaling and voice encryption equipment for the mobile communications industry.
The company's original Selectone products are found in virtually every type of business, industrial, and public safety communication system throughout the world. In 1992, the company introduced the original SmarTrunk system as a low cost trunking protocol for radiotelephone systems in developing countries. In 1994, a second-generation system was introduced, SmarTrunk II, with many more features and a faster, more secure digital signaling protocol. Since then, SmarTrunk II has become an industry standard radio trunking protocol at VHF and UHF frequencies in more than eighty countries and is offered on an OEM basis by most leading manufacturers of wireless communications equipment.
Recognizing the growing importance of the SmarTrunk II product line, the company's corporate name was changed to SmarTrunk Systems, Inc., in early 1996. In June 2000, the company's original Selectone product line was sold to Communications Specialists, Inc., of Orange, California. In July, 2001, after nearly 30 years in the land mobile business, SmarTrunk's founder and CEO elected to retire by arranging the sale of the company to Ranger Communications, Inc. SmarTrunk Systems, Inc., is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ranger Communications, Inc., of Chula Vista, California.Ranger's three overseas factories, coupled with their 30 years of experience in the communications business, will assure SmarTrunk's future as the leading supplier of VHF and UHF radio trunking and wireless local loop systems. After many consistent upgrades (as ST-960 AVL fleet management), in January, 2009, SmarTrunk Systems decided to launch a new product, the new SmartXpress Trunking Protocol, which left behind the older SmarTrunk II products line with incredible enhancements, pushing the new family of logic boards to the top of the analog trunking market.
The SmarTrunk Xpress product line is compatible with ST-510 Wide Area Network Switches family, and Xpress logic boards are backwards compatible with older protocol systems.
The recent introduction of the new analog/digital PMR radios with SmartXpress embedded and the ST-610 SmarTrunk Xpress Network IP Switch, SmartXpress portfolio becomes the most efficient with the highest cost/benefit relationship in the market.
Under new management, with new market focus, and clear rules for distribution channel, SmarTrunk is a leader in technology innovation as it has been recently proved with the presentation of the new digital radios, which includes more than 10 patents.SmarTrunk Systems, Inc. is located in Chula Vista, near San Diego, CA. Manufacturing and engineering facilities are maintained in Taiwan, Shanghai, Malaysia, Vietnam and Argentina. SmarTrunk products and systems are marketed by most leading manufacturers of wireless communications equipment and by communication system integrators in key geographic regions throughout the world.